Brittany Bowe broke the longest-standing Olympic speed skating event world record on Sunday, taking the 1500m crown at the season-opening World Cup in Calgary.
The U.S. Olympian clocked 1 minute, 51.59 seconds, beating the time set by Canadian Cindy Klassen on Nov. 20, 2005, by two tenths of a second.
Bowe’s time is three tenths of a second slower than Norwegian legend Johann Olav Koss‘ winning time in the men’s 1500m at the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics, which was then a world record before the clap-skate era.
Bowe went under her own personal best by .